Srpska Republika News Agency (SRNA), 97-02-21

FEB. 21, 1997 DAY

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

LONDON - The president of the Republika Srpska (RS) National Assembly,
Dragan Kalinic, assessed as very successful the official visit of the multi-
party RS Assembly delegation to Great Britain. According to him, the five-
day visit was paid in an friendly atmosphere. "This was an initial and key
step forward in the establishment of parliamentarian cooperation between RS
and Great Britain", stated president Kalinic.

SARAJEVO - The RS minister for refugees and displaced persons, Ljubisa
Vladusic, talked in Pale with director of the Swiss agency SRSA, Mr.
Helkant, about the implementation of $ 25 million SRSA projects in RS.
Minister Vladusic informed Mr. Helkant of priorities in permanent
accommodation of refugees and displaced persons in RS - the issue which
should be found in SRSA projects. Mr. Helkant was submitted a project
proposal for reconstruction of damaged residential building and
construction of new ones for RS refugees.

BANJALUKA - Deputy director of the RS Customs Administration, Ratko
Trifunovic, talked in Banjaluka with the delegation of the European
Commission for Customs and Fiscal Operations about a need for modernisation
and development of the RS Customs Administration. An especial emphasis was
given to professional up-grading of the customs officials.

BANJALUKA - The OSCE Banjaluka Regional Centre reminded all political
parties of February 26 deadline for registration of their members for the
local electoral commissions in all municipalities. Members of all political
parties registered for the municipal elections planned for last September
are eligible for candidacy.

BEOGRAD - At the constitution session of Belgrade's City Assembly, new
president and vice-president of the Assembly were elected, in addition to
members of the Assembly's Executive Board, all elected being members of the
opposition parties for the first time after WWII. New Belgrade mayor is
Zoran Djinjdic, president of the Democratic Party (DS), while City Assembly
vicepresident is the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) member, Milan Bozic.
The president of the Executive Board is SPO's Spasoje Krunic, and
Aleksandar Milutinovic, Milutin Randjelovic and Milutin Stamenkoovic are
elected his deputies.

BEOGRAD - The taking off red star from the Belgrade's Assmelby building
symbolically marked the end of socialists' rule in Belgrade. The followers
of the coalition "Together" will celebrate their victory at the Republic
Square in Belgrade.

BEOGRAD - The Belgrade students continued their protests, asking for a
complete recognition of all electoral results of the second round of the
local elections and asking for resignations of the president and vice-
president of the Belgrade University.

MOSCOW - The Russian-American dialogue for which Russian presidential
spokesman said was useful and described its results as "cautious optimism".
This statement followed an one-hour meeting between Russian president Boris
Yeltzin and US secretary of state Madelaine Albright, held in Kremlin,
which concerned Yeltzin-Clinton summit scheduled for March 21 in Helsinki.